Phil 1.17.18

Harbinger, another DiscussionGame comparable: We are investigating how people make predictions and how to improve forecasting of current events.

Working over time, constructing a project based on beliefs and ideas, can be regarded as working with a group of yourself. You communicate with your future self through construction. You perceive your past self through artifacts. Polarization should happen here as a matter of course, since the social similarity (and therefore influence) is very high.

Back to Beyond Individual Choice

Back to Angular – prepping for integration of PolarizationGame into the A2P platform. Speaking of which, there needs to be a REST API that will support registered, (optionally?) identified bots. A bot that is able to persuade a group of people over time to reach a unanimous vote would be an interesting Turing-style test. And a prize

Got Tour of Heroes running again, though it seems broken…

Nice chat with Jeremy.

He’ll talk to Heath about what it would take to set up an A2P instance for the discussion system that could scale to millions of players